Alcohol bottles found inside car tyre, smuggling gang busted!

• Around 360 bottles of liquor were seized.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have busted a gang attempting to smuggle bottles of alcohol and contraband inside car tyres.

According to reports in Saudi media outlets, the police confiscated three vehicles at the King Fahad Causeway, linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, and retrieved around 360 bottles of hard liquor and 105 kg of kola nuts.

"Regarding the first attempt, the officers discovered 312 bottles of hard liquor concealed in the tyres of a private vehicle," Dhaif Allah Al Otaibi, the general director of customs on King Fahad Causeway, said, quoted by Saudi news site Sabq on Thursday.

"As for the second smuggling attempt, the officers found 46 bottles concealed in the petrol tank. The third attempt was foiled when the officers found 105 kilogrammes of kola nuts also hidden in the tyres of the vehicles," he said.

An attempt by a woman to smuggle 1,504 bottles of liquor was foiled on the same road last February, the website said.